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	\| term_start = 8 August 1930		\| term_start = 8 August 1930
	\| term_end = 7 August 1934		\| term_end = 7 August 1934
	\| predecessor = W. S. Urquhart		\| predecessor = [[W. S. Urquhart]]
	\| successor = [[Syama Prasad Mukherjee]]<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Vice-Chancellors\|url=https://www.caluniv.ac.in/about/vc.html\|access-date=2021-02-01\|website=caluniv.ac.in}}</ref>		\| successor = [[Syama Prasad Mukherjee]]<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Vice-Chancellors\|url=https://www.caluniv.ac.in/about/vc.html\|access-date=2021-02-01\|website=caluniv.ac.in}}</ref>
	\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1884\|11\|17\|df=y}}		\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1884\|11\|17\|df=y}}
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	\| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British India		\| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British India
	\| children = [[Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah\|Shaista Suhrawardy]] (daughter)		\| children = [[Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah\|Shaista Suhrawardy]] (daughter)
	\| relatives = {{ubl\|[[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] (nephew)~~\|cousin=~~[[Zahid Suhrawardy]] (cousin)}}		\| relatives = [[Suhrawardy family]]; <br/>
			{{ubl\|[[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] (nephew), <br/>
			[[Abdullah Al-Mamun Suhrawardy]] (brother), <br/>
			[[Khujista Akhtar Banu]] (sister),<br/>
			[[Zahid Suhrawardy]] (cousin),
			[[Ibrahim Suhrawardy]] (nephew),<br/>
			[[Begum Badar un nissa Akhtar]] (niece) <br/> [[Syud Hossain]] (brother in law)}}
	\| spouse = Sahibzadi Shahbanu Begum		\| spouse = Sahibzadi Shahbanu Begum
	\| rank = [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)\|Lieutenant-Colonel]]		\| rank = [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)\|Lieutenant-Colonel]]
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	[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)\|Lieutenant-Colonel]]<!-- he renounced his knighthood and OBE --> '''Hassan Suhrawardy''' [[Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)\|CStJ]], [[Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons\|FRCS]] (17 November 1884 – 18 September 1946)<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book \|title= [[Burke's Peerage\|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]\|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry \|editor= Burke, Sir Bernard \|editor-link=Bernard Burke \|edition= 97th \|year=1939 \|page=2921 \|ref=Burke }}</ref> was a Bengali surgeon, [[military officer]] in the [[British Indian Army]], politician, and a public official. He was the former ~~Chairman~~ of the executive committee of the [[East London Mosque]]. Knighted in 1932, he renounced his British honours a month before his death.<ref name=times>{{cite news \|title= Obituary: Dr. H. Suhrawardy – Surgeon and Public Servant \|work=[[The Times]] \|date= 19 September 1946 \|page=6 }}</ref>		[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)\|Lieutenant-Colonel]]<!-- he renounced his knighthood and OBE --> '''Hassan Suhrawardy''' [[Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)\|CStJ]], [[Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons\|FRCS]] (17 November 1884 – 18 September 1946)<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book \|title= [[Burke's Peerage\|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]\|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry \|editor= Burke, Sir Bernard \|editor-link=Bernard Burke \|edition= 97th \|year=1939 \|page=2921 \|ref=Burke }}</ref> was a Bengali surgeon, [[military officer]] in the [[British Indian Army]], politician, and a public official. He was the former chairman of the executive committee of the [[East London Mosque]]. Knighted in 1932, he renounced his British honours a month before his death.<ref name=times>{{cite news \|title= Obituary: Dr. H. Suhrawardy – Surgeon and Public Servant \|work=[[The Times]] \|date= 19 September 1946 \|page=6 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book \|title=University of Calcutta. Convocation Addresses. 1924-1932 \|url=https://southasiacommons.net/artifacts/2360056/university-of-calcutta/3358735/ \|publisher=Calcutta University Press}}</ref>

	==Life and family==		==Life and family==
	Hassan Suhrawardy was born in [[Dhaka]], to [[Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy]], an educationist and scion of the prominent Suhrawardy family of [[Midnapore]] (now in [[West Bengal]], India). At a very young age, Hassan was married to Sahibzadi Shahbanu Begum in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way. They had a harmonious marriage and were the parents of two children, a son Hassan Masud Suhrawardy (1903–1963) and a daughter, [[Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah]]. Hassan's daughter Shaista was married to [[Mohammed Ikramullah]], a Pakistani diplomat and brother of Chief Justice [[Mohammad Hidayatullah]], sometime ~~Vice~~-~~President~~ of India. Through Shaista Begum, Hassan Suhrawardy is the grandfather of [[Salma Sobhan]], [[Naz Ikramullah]] and [[Princess Sarvath al-Hassan\|Princess Sarvath of Jordan]].		Hassan Suhrawardy was born in [[Dhaka]], to [[Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy]], an educationist and scion of the prominent [[Suhrawardy family]] of [[Midnapore]] (now in [[West Bengal]], India). At a very young age, Hassan was married to Sahibzadi Shahbanu Begum in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way. They had a harmonious marriage and were the parents of two children, a son Hassan Masud Suhrawardy (1903–1963) and a daughter, [[Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah]]. Hassan's daughter Shaista was married to [[Mohammed Ikramullah]], a Pakistani diplomat and brother of Chief Justice [[Mohammad Hidayatullah]], sometime vice-president of India. Through Shaista Begum, Hassan Suhrawardy is the grandfather of [[Salma Sobhan]], [[Naz Ikramullah]] and [[Princess Sarvath al-Hassan\|Princess Sarvath of Jordan]].

	[[Prime Minister of Pakistan\|5th Prime Minister of Pakistan]] [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] was a son of Khujastha Akhtar Banu, a sister of Hassan Suhrawardy. Khujastha was married to her cousin Justice Sir [[Zahid Suhrawardy]], an early Indian judge of the Calcutta High Court.		[[Prime Minister of Pakistan\|5th Prime Minister of Pakistan]] [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] was a son of Khujastha Akhtar Banu, a sister of Hassan Suhrawardy. Khujastha was married to her cousin Justice Sir [[Zahid Suhrawardy]], an early Indian judge of the Calcutta High Court.
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	[[File:Muslim Community- Everyday Life in Butetown, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 1943 D15324.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Suhrawardy stands at a microphone as he speaks to the audience in [[Cardiff]] (1943)]]		[[File:Muslim Community- Everyday Life in Butetown, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 1943 D15324.jpg\|thumb\|left\|Suhrawardy stands at a microphone as he speaks to the audience in [[Cardiff]] (1943)]]

	Suhrawardy was the ~~First~~ Muslim ~~Vice~~-~~Chancellor~~ of [[Calcutta University]] (1930–1934) and the second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]]. In 1945 he was appointed Professor of Islamic History and Culture in [[Calcutta University]] while retaining the chair of Public Health and Hygiene, which he had held since 1931.		Suhrawardy was the first Muslim vice-chancellor of [[Calcutta University]] (1930–1934) and the second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]]. In 1945 he was appointed Professor of Islamic History and Culture in Calcutta University while retaining the chair of Public Health and Hygiene, which he had held since 1931.

	Suhrawardy served as an adviser to the Simon Commission and was a member of the Bengal Legislative Council of which he was ~~Deputy President~~ from 1923 to 1925. As the ~~Chief Medical~~ and ~~Health Officer~~ of the [[East Indian Railway]], he founded the railway's ambulance and nursing division.		Suhrawardy served as an adviser to the Simon Commission and was a member of the Bengal Legislative Council of which he was deputy president from 1923 to 1925. As the chief medical and health officer of the [[East Indian Railway]], he founded the railway's ambulance and nursing division.

	Suhrawardy also played a role towards the establishment of the [[East London Mosque]].		Suhrawardy also played a role towards the establishment of the [[East London Mosque]].
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	==Knighthood and later life==		==Knighthood and later life==

	While Suhrawardy was ~~Vice~~-~~Chancellor~~ and ~~Dean~~ of the Faculty of Medicine, he received his knighthood immediately after he had saved the life of Sir [[Stanley Jackson]] from an assassination attempt by [[Bina Das]], a student, in the Senate House of the [[University of Calcutta]] in February 1932. His distinguished career in medicine and in the public service was crowned in 1939 by his appointment to succeed [[Abdul Qadir (Muslim leader)\|Sir Abdul Qadir]] as the ~~Adviser~~ to the [[Secretary of State for India]]. He retired from that post in 1944.		While Suhrawardy was vice-chancellor and dean of the Faculty of Medicine, he received his knighthood immediately after he had saved the life of Sir [[Stanley Jackson]] from an assassination attempt by [[Bina Das]], a student, in the Senate House of the [[University of Calcutta]] in February 1932. His distinguished career in medicine and in the public service was crowned in 1939 by his appointment to succeed [[Abdul Qadir (Muslim leader)\|Sir Abdul Qadir]] as the adviser to the [[Secretary of State for India]]. He retired from that post in 1944.

	Suhrawardy was appointed an OBE in the [[1927 Birthday Honours]] list,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33280/supplement/3616/data.pdf\|title=London Gazette\|date=2 June 1927\|access-date=31 January 2021\|page=3616}}</ref> awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, First Class in the same honours list in 1930,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33611/supplement/3485/data.pdf\|title=London Gazette\|date=3 June 1930\|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> knighted on 17 February 1932,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33816/page/2398/data.pdf\|title=London Gazette\|date=12 April 1932\|page=2398\|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> appointed an Associate Officer of the [[Venerable Order of St. John]] (OStJ) in January 1932<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33786/page/46\|title=London Gazette\|date=1 January 1932\|page=46\|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> and promoted to Associate Commander in January 1937.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34356/page/3\|title=London Gazette\|date=1 January 1937\|page=3\|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref>		Suhrawardy was appointed an OBE in the [[1927 Birthday Honours]] list,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33280/supplement/3616/data.pdf\|title=The London Gazette\|date=2 June 1927\|access-date=31 January 2021\|page=3616}}</ref> awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, First Class in the same honours list in 1930,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33611/supplement/3485/data.pdf\|title=The London Gazette\|date=3 June 1930\|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> knighted on 17 February 1932,<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33816/page/2398/data.pdf\|title=The London Gazette\|date=12 April 1932\|page=2398\|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> appointed an Associate Officer of the [[Venerable Order of St. John]] (OStJ) in January 1932<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33786/page/46\|title=The London Gazette\|date=1 January 1932\|page=46\|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> and promoted to Associate Commander in January 1937.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34356/page/3\|title=The London Gazette\|date=1 January 1937\|page=3\|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref>

	Suhrawardy was active in the [[All-India Muslim League]].<ref name=times/>		Suhrawardy was active in the [[All-India Muslim League]].<ref name=times/>
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	Suhrawardy died at the [[Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine]], aged 61.<ref name=times/> He had renounced his knighthood and [[OBE]] a month before his death in August 1946, when the Muslim League decided to renounce all British honours.		Suhrawardy died at the [[Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine]], aged 61.<ref name=times/> He had renounced his knighthood and [[OBE]] a month before his death in August 1946, when the Muslim League decided to renounce all British honours.

	In April 1933, [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation\|Calcutta Municipal Corporation]] named the new 100 ft. road from Park Circus to the junction of Kasaipara Lane as "Suhrawardy Avenue". Suhrawardy's house "Kashana" stood on that road.<ref>{{Cite ~~web~~\|date=2021-02-01\|title=Deshpriya Jatindra Mohan & Nellie Sengupta\|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/news/deshpriya-jatindra-mohan-nellie-sengupta-2036981\|access-date=2021-02-01\|~~website~~=The Daily Star\|language=en}}</ref> As of 2020, the house is used as the Library and Information Center building of Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite ~~web~~\|date=2020-02-07\|title=Streetwise Kolkata: Suhrawardy Avenue… no, not named after the 'Butcher of Bengal'\|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/streetwise-kolkata-suhrawardy-avenue-no-not-named-after-the-butcher-of-bengal-6255737/\|access-date=2021-02-01\|~~website~~=The Indian Express\|language=en}}</ref>		In April 1933, [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation\|Calcutta Municipal Corporation]] named the new 100 ft. road from Park Circus to the junction of Kasaipara Lane as "Suhrawardy Avenue". Suhrawardy's house "Kashana" stood on that road.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=2021-02-01\|title=Deshpriya Jatindra Mohan & Nellie Sengupta\|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/news/deshpriya-jatindra-mohan-nellie-sengupta-2036981\|access-date=2021-02-01\|work=The Daily Star\|language=en}}</ref> As of 2020, the house is used as the Library and Information Center building of the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite news \|date=2020-02-07\|title=Streetwise Kolkata: Suhrawardy Avenue… no, not named after the 'Butcher of Bengal'\|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/streetwise-kolkata-suhrawardy-avenue-no-not-named-after-the-butcher-of-bengal-6255737/\|access-date=2021-02-01\|work=The Indian Express\|language=en}}</ref>

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Hassan Suhrawardy
| native_name = হাসান সোহরাওয়ার্দী
| native_name_lang = bn
| honorific_suffix = [[CStJ]], [[FRCS]]
| image = Hasan Suhrawardy.jpg
| office = Vice-Chancellor of [[Calcutta University]]
| term_start = 8 August 1930
| term_end = 7 August 1934
| predecessor = W. S. Urquhart
| successor = [[Syama Prasad Mukherjee]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vice-Chancellors|url=https://www.caluniv.ac.in/about/vc.html|access-date=2021-02-01|website=caluniv.ac.in}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date|1884|11|17|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Dhaka]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| father = [[Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1946|09|18|1884|11|17|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British India
| children = [[Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah|Shaista Suhrawardy]] (daughter)
| relatives = {{ubl|[[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] (nephew)|cousin=[[Zahid Suhrawardy]] (cousin)}}
| spouse = Sahibzadi Shahbanu Begum
| rank = [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]]
| branch = [[British Indian Army]]
}}

[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-Colonel]] '''Hassan Suhrawardy''' [[Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)|CStJ]], [[Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons|FRCS]] (17 November 1884 – 18 September 1946)<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page=2921 |ref=Burke }}</ref> was a Bengali surgeon, [[military officer]] in the [[British Indian Army]], politician, and a public official. He was the former Chairman of the executive committee of the [[East London Mosque]]. Knighted in 1932, he renounced his British honours a month before his death.<ref name=times>{{cite news |title= Obituary: Dr. H. Suhrawardy – Surgeon and Public Servant |work=[[The Times]] |date= 19 September 1946 |page=6 }}</ref>

==Life and family==
Hassan Suhrawardy was born in [[Dhaka]], to [[Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy]], an educationist and scion of the prominent Suhrawardy family of [[Midnapore]] (now in [[West Bengal]], India). At a very young age, Hassan was married to Sahibzadi Shahbanu Begum in a match arranged by their families in the usual Indian way. They had a harmonious marriage and were the parents of two children, a son Hassan Masud Suhrawardy (1903–1963) and a daughter, [[Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah]]. Hassan's daughter Shaista was married to [[Mohammed Ikramullah]], a Pakistani diplomat and brother of Chief Justice [[Mohammad Hidayatullah]], sometime Vice-President of India. Through Shaista Begum, Hassan Suhrawardy is the grandfather of [[Salma Sobhan]], [[Naz Ikramullah]] and [[Princess Sarvath al-Hassan|Princess Sarvath of Jordan]].

[[Prime Minister of Pakistan|5th Prime Minister of Pakistan]] [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] was a son of Khujastha Akhtar Banu, a sister of Hassan Suhrawardy. Khujastha was married to her cousin Justice Sir [[Zahid Suhrawardy]], an early Indian judge of the Calcutta High Court.

==Career==

[[File:Muslim Community- Everyday Life in Butetown, Cardiff, Wales, UK, 1943 D15324.jpg|thumb|left|Suhrawardy stands at a microphone as he speaks to the audience in [[Cardiff]] (1943)]]

Suhrawardy was the First Muslim Vice-Chancellor of [[Calcutta University]] (1930–1934) and the second Muslim from the sub-continent to become a Fellow of the [[Royal College of Surgeons of England]]. In 1945 he was appointed Professor of Islamic History and Culture in [[Calcutta University]] while retaining the chair of Public Health and Hygiene, which he had held since 1931.

Suhrawardy served as an adviser to the Simon Commission and was a member of the Bengal Legislative Council of which he was Deputy President from 1923 to 1925. As the Chief Medical and Health Officer of the [[East Indian Railway]], he founded the railway's ambulance and nursing division.

Suhrawardy also played a role towards the establishment of the [[East London Mosque]].

==Knighthood and later life==

While Suhrawardy was Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, he received his knighthood immediately after he had saved the life of Sir [[Stanley Jackson]] from an assassination attempt by [[Bina Das]], a student, in the Senate House of the [[University of Calcutta]] in February 1932. His distinguished career in medicine and in the public service was crowned in 1939 by his appointment to succeed [[Abdul Qadir (Muslim leader)|Sir Abdul Qadir]] as the Adviser to the [[Secretary of State for India]]. He retired from that post in 1944.

Suhrawardy was appointed an OBE in the [[1927 Birthday Honours]] list,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33280/supplement/3616/data.pdf|title=London Gazette|date=2 June 1927|access-date=31 January 2021|page=3616}}</ref> awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal, First Class in the same honours list in 1930,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33611/supplement/3485/data.pdf|title=London Gazette|date=3 June 1930|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> knighted on 17 February 1932,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33816/page/2398/data.pdf|title=London Gazette|date=12 April 1932|page=2398|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> appointed an Associate Officer of the [[Venerable Order of St. John]] (OStJ) in January 1932<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33786/page/46|title=London Gazette|date=1 January 1932|page=46|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref> and promoted to Associate Commander in January 1937.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34356/page/3|title=London Gazette|date=1 January 1937|page=3|access-date=31 January 2021}}</ref>

Suhrawardy was active in the [[All-India Muslim League]].<ref name=times/>

==Death and legacy==
Suhrawardy died at the [[Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine]], aged 61.<ref name=times/> He had renounced his knighthood and [[OBE]] a month before his death in August 1946, when the Muslim League decided to renounce all British honours.

In April 1933, [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation|Calcutta Municipal Corporation]] named the new 100 ft. road from Park Circus to the junction of Kasaipara Lane as "Suhrawardy Avenue". Suhrawardy's house "Kashana" stood on that road.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-02-01|title=Deshpriya Jatindra Mohan & Nellie Sengupta|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/news/deshpriya-jatindra-mohan-nellie-sengupta-2036981|access-date=2021-02-01|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref> As of 2020, the house is used as the Library and Information Center building of Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-02-07|title=Streetwise Kolkata: Suhrawardy Avenue… no, not named after the 'Butcher of Bengal'|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/streetwise-kolkata-suhrawardy-avenue-no-not-named-after-the-butcher-of-bengal-6255737/|access-date=2021-02-01|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>

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